Can Gp2x Handle Doom?!?!

[Prophet]

LOL! Well I was reading the comments on the slashdot news on GP2X ( http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/0...tid=184&tid=106 ) and among many stupid comments, I found one that made me truly laugh:

"I'm curious if twin CPUs is enough to handle the likes of Doom and Quake full speed. I'm using a Sharp Zaurus (Linux PDA) with a 400Mhz+ ARM processor. On it, Doom is a bit jagged around the edges. A Gameboy Advance ROM barely gets off the ground. I'm sure the likes of a Commodore 64 is possible though, but I'd hope the thing is fast. "

This poor Linux dude needs to see Doom flying along on our paltry 133Mhz GP32, That Zaurus sounds good specs-wise, but sounds like the GP32 has been getting much better developers.

(yes Vimacs, I know - it's a pointless thread! But it's FUNNY!)

 

[rabbits with hats]

What a noob

 

[DemonStar55]

dude I wonder if the successor to a handheld that is cabable to run doom at fullspeed depending on your OC abilites will be able to run doom at all....

 

[rabbits with hats]

"Mame on *that* ? Bad idea (Score:1, Flamebait)
by Olivier Galibert (774) on Sunday September 18, @08:23AM (#13589000)
Unless you don't care about anything post-1980. Dual doesn't help Mame at all, so you end up doing everything on one really puny 200Mhz processor. It *will* suck.

OG."

"Re:Mame on *that* ? Jolly good idea! (Score:1, Informative)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18, @08:43AM (#13589047)
Take a look here:

(Mame for GP32) http://www.talfi.net/gp32_franxis/ [talfi.net]"



"Re:Mame on *that* ? Bad idea (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18, @12:29PM (#13589868)
MAME is absolutely amazing on the gp32 and will be even better on the gp2x. I own a gp32 and know from experience."


"Re:Mame on *that* ? Bad idea (Score:0)
by rabbits with hats on Tuesday September 20, @12:39PM (#13605331)
Stupid shit "

/(me) :rolleyes:

 

[Vimacs]

Do you realy feel the need to create a topic just for ranting?
Where is the Love?

 

[rabbits with hats]

Where is the Love?

I could show you where I put it, but I don't think you would like to see. :rolleyes:

 

[Jaw]

humm.. not a wise idea to troll at OG. he's one of the most active people in mamedev, and is actually correct in what he is saying

 

[rabbits with hats]

Meh





eep!

 

[mattbakse]

lol it's funny when people try to talk about something they don't know about. just some of those comments. :rolleyes:

Especially when they say that the GP32 has a 4" screen.

 

[Prophet]

humm.. not a wise idea to troll at OG. he's one of the most active people in mamedev, and is actually correct in what he is saying

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No need to fear OG. He's MAMEdev, but that doesn't make him infallable. MAME has been successfully ported to several handheld platforms, and through optimization and use of ASM CPU cores, it does perform quite well for 80's and late 80's games. Even some early 90's games are quite playable.

In fact many games "post-1980" run just fine on various handhelds. A lot of people simply aren't aware of what goes on in the handheld scene. OG among them.

 

[Ravnos]

Just a question, but just what late-80's/early-90's games can be expected to do ok on the GP2X? I'm personally only interested in a few games (Carrier Airwing, GI Joe, X-Men) but I want to know how high I should set my expectations. I know MAME can be a bit of a pig, though, so I'm going to assume that's too high.

 

[efegea]

LOL! Well I was reading the comments on the slashdot news on GP2X ( http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/0...tid=184&tid=106 ) and among many stupid comments, I found one that made me truly laugh:

"I'm curious if twin CPUs is enough to handle the likes of Doom and Quake full speed. I'm using a Sharp Zaurus (Linux PDA) with a 400Mhz+ ARM processor. On it, Doom is a bit jagged around the edges. A Gameboy Advance ROM barely gets off the ground. I'm sure the likes of a Commodore 64 is possible though, but I'd hope the thing is fast. "

This poor Linux dude needs to see Doom flying along on our paltry 133Mhz GP32, That Zaurus sounds good specs-wise, but sounds like the GP32 has been getting much better developers.

(yes Vimacs, I know - it's a pointless thread! But it's FUNNY!)

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Why do you think this person uses linux? :blink:

 

[Ravnos]

LOL! Well I was reading the comments on the slashdot news on GP2X ( http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/0...tid=184&tid=106 ) and among many stupid comments, I found one that made me truly laugh:

"I'm curious if twin CPUs is enough to handle the likes of Doom and Quake full speed. I'm using a Sharp Zaurus (Linux PDA) with a 400Mhz+ ARM processor. On it, Doom is a bit jagged around the edges. A Gameboy Advance ROM barely gets off the ground. I'm sure the likes of a Commodore 64 is possible though, but I'd hope the thing is fast. "

This poor Linux dude needs to see Doom flying along on our paltry 133Mhz GP32, That Zaurus sounds good specs-wise, but sounds like the GP32 has been getting much better developers.

(yes Vimacs, I know - it's a pointless thread! But it's FUNNY!)

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Why do you think this person uses linux? :blink:

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The Sharp Zaurus is a Linux PDA.

 

[TandeM]

I think Doom flew along quite well when it was on a 40MHz GP32! Hope he wasn't trying to emulate Doom for GBA or anything...

 

[Ravnos]

I think Doom flew along quite well when it was on a 40MHz GP32! Hope he wasn't trying to emulate Doom for GBA or anything...

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He would have to be doing something stupid like that. The original had no problems with my old 40MHz 486 (with 4MB RAM!) back in the day, and I don't think there's a source port around that could bog the game down that bad on a 400MHz machine. Maybe the Zaurus is just a crappy piece of hardware.